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Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess
Touchstone 2008; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess
Touchstone 2008; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
The Queen of Katwe
Scribner 2012; US$ 26.00Based on a popular ESPN magazine article selected by Dave Eggers for The Best American Nonrequired Reading and a finalist for a National Magazine Award, the inspiring true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenage chess prodigy from the slums of Kampala, Uganda. PHIONA MUTESI sleeps in a decrepit shack with her mother and three siblings and struggles to... more...
A Psychobiography of Bobby Fischer
Charles C Thomas 2012; US$ 33.95Robert (Bobby) James Fischer was one of the worlds most mysterious and exciting personalities of the middle 20th century. He single handedly ended a 35 year span of Russian domination of elite chess when he defeated Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship in 1972 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fischers dynamic victory ignited in Americans... more...
Shogi Japan's Game of Strategy
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 16.95Trevor Legett has written the Bible of shogi, a chess-like game of strategy. He explains the board, the moves, relative value, and effective use of each piece, and possible openings. Easy-to-follow diagrams and a sample game with commentary further elucidate clever strategies and the use of paratroops” (pieces captured from an opponent)... more...
Philosophy Looks at Chess
Open Court 2012; US$ 19.95Chess, the ancient strategy game, meets the latest, cutting-edge philosophy in this unique book. When 12 philosophers weigh in on one of the world's oldest and most beloved pastimes, the results are often surprising. Philosophical concepts as varied as phenomenology and determinism share the page with a treatise on hip-hop chess tactics and the question... more...
John Brown: The Forgotten Chess Composer?
Troubador Publishing Ltd 2011; Not AvailableJohn Brown: The Forgotten Chess Composer? reintroduces a classic chess title to a whole new readership. Chess Strategy was originally published in 1865, and now Brian Gosling investigates the life and work of it?s author, John Brown, selecting 50 of his chess problems to inspire a new generation of chess players. more...
The Queen of Katwe: a story of life, chess, and one extraordinary girl's dream of becoming a grandmaster
Scribe Publications 2012; US$ 18.99The true story of a female prodigy from the Ugandan slum of Katwe Phiona Mutesi sleeps in a mud hut with her mother and siblings, and struggles to find a meal each day. She is also one of the best chess players in the world. One day in 2005, while searching for food, nine-year-old Phiona followed her brother to a dusty verandah where she... more...
The Absolute Correspondence Championship of the United States Chess Federation, 1976-2010
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 45.00This collection of the games, most of them annotated, features the United States Chess Federation's premiere invitational tournament--the Absolute Championship. Features include statistical results of participants from 1976 through 2010, results of many opening variations as played in the Absolutes, yearly crosstables, biographical details of all... more...
One Jump Ahead
Springer 2008; US$ 49.95Depicts the creation of the world champion checkers computer program, Chinook. This book details the mistakes and technical problems made and the lessons learned in the continuous effort to improve Chinook's performance, revealing the human factor behind the program's design. more...









